An excerpt from last week’s hour long Smaugathon, now available for everyone. Not the juiciest bit of all – that was the finished clip, I’d say – but still plenty fun.

Jackson has updated his Facebook page too, commenting on how the full Smaugathon was a pretty accurate representation of his life right now:

Jabez and I sit in that editing room all day, every day, editing the second Hobbit movie, and we actually start on the third next week! A lot of that movie was shot nearly a year ago, so I’m looking forward to seeing it come alive, shot by shot in the cutting room.

It’s like assembling one of those complex 2000 piece jigsaw puzzles.For us, this is really the being of 2013, so I look forward to posting a bunch more stuff as we work through the year.

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